> > I am, for one, sure that the HTML standard committee will someday > manage to add markup for shitty baby napkins. The palms and > beaches of their happenings seem to promote this direction. ^.^
I, uh, think something might've been lost in translation. :| On 30 May 2016 at 23:20, Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote: > Hello! > > John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > |> I have been convinced that soft hyphen is a control character and > |> not something visual, > | > |Almost correct. > | > |Soft hyphens *do* describe potential breaking points, but they only > become > |visible when surrounding text is broken. > | > |For instance, assume this line had soft-hyphens every 20 characters: > | > |Methionylalanylthreonylserylarginylglycylalanylserylarginylcysteinylproly > | > |When wrapped, this is how it would look: > | > |Methionylalanylthre- > |onylserylarginylgly- > |cylalanylserylargin- > |ylcysteinylproly > | > |Without soft-hyphens (and when wrapped to 20 columns), it'd look like > this > |instead: > | > |Methionylalanylthre > |onylserylarginylgly > |cylalanylserylargin > |ylcysteinylproly > | > |Here, hyphenation becomes a lot less apparent. > > Yes. For display purposes however i think U+00AD can't be used > directly, but will be replaced by the renderer to either nothing, > if no wrap is to be applied at the character position, or > something appropriate, like ASCII hyphen-minus or some extended > Unicode "Pd" letter, of which there are some (e.g., U+058A > ARMENIAN HYPHEN, U+1400 CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN, and more). > > |I should also add that I don't know how well-supported this behaviour is > |between different platforms. I remember reading that some browsers > |displayed the hyphen between broken word boundaries, while others didn't. > |Web authors were encouraged to use the more semantic and reliable <wbr/> > |element <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/wbr> > |instead. > > I am, for one, sure that the HTML standard committee will someday > manage to add markup for shitty baby napkins. The palms and > beaches of their happenings seem to promote this direction. ^.^ > > --steffen > >
